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Definition of tarpaper in English:

tarpaper

noun

‘The woman lived with her children in a 12-foot-square tarpaper shack.’

‘My people lived in tarpaper shacks with plywood siding and five-gallon drums for heat.’

‘Except there's no sheetrock, only the black tarpaper they use to cover insulation and the beams and studs of the frame.’

‘Inside the garage he inhaled the scent of motor oil and dust and tarpaper.’

‘Within 30 minutes the mural had been covered by tarpaper and a wooden screen.’

‘You're going to have $400,000, million-dollar-mortgage, plastic-covered tarpaper shacks - which is what I think they're going for now - where the people in them, no longer have the jobs.’

‘You're going to see all those people living in tarpaper shacks that cost $400,000 to $600,000 or more in mortgages out there in the hills around here, around Washington.’

‘It is a tarpaper roof, applied by professionals over a flat wood surface.’

‘Many agricultural workers continue to live the equivalent of an old-South sharecropper existence in tarpaper shacks, plywood shanties and wooden boxcars with no running water.’

‘The runways were lengthened and tarpaper shacks and other buildings were built in a matter of a few months.’

‘Damage to the houses was repaired with the least expensive materials: tarpaper covered holes in walls and roofs and water-resistant metallic paint filled in thin roof areas.’

‘At the time, their high school consisted of a series of leaky tarpaper shacks.’

‘On the way we pass through Chinle again, past the Navajo single wides, sometimes repaired with bits of plywood, dirt yards, a junker or two out front, quite often a Hogan, made either of logs or plywood and tarpaper out front too.’

‘Largely illiterate and dependent on seasonal farm work, most families have struggled to pay the $25 to $50 rent for the tarpaper shacks that they've been living in up until now.’

‘He exhibits lithographs and paintings on tarpaper.’

‘As a lad, I wandered onto a patch of land with a tarpaper shack occupied by, as I learned later, a hermit.’

‘Some 10,000 Lakota Sioux resided there during the 1970s, many living in tarpaper shacks without electricity or running water.’

‘They bought into plastic-coated, tarpaper shacks, with mortgage values assessed at between $500,000 and $1 million, or something of that sort.’

‘When installing drain tile, they observe that if stone is placed around the tile, a barrier of straw, tarpaper or geotextile is placed between it and the sand to prevent stone contaminating sand.’

‘When I first came here, my Mom pictured me living in a tarpaper shack.’